Friday, September 18, 2015

App Launch

I just launched a Ryan Bilodeau app that will give you direct access to my blog content

Here is the direct link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RyanBilodeauTechColumn&hl=en

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Dislike Button Comes to Facebook

Dislike Button Comes to Facebook

Upvoting is very popular today on sites like Reddit, Product Hunt and other technology blogs.  If you remember, Facebook actually used to have a dislike button. Well it seems like they're bringing it back. Engadget writes:

For all of those times when "liking" a pal's Facebook post just doesn't seem appropriate, it seems you'll soon have another option. During a Q&A session today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the social network is indeed working on a "dislike" button. Zuckerberg said Facebook didn't offer the option from the start for fear of a Reddit-like battle of upvoting and downvoting. However, the company discovered we have a range of emotions we'd like to express in addition to affirmation, most notably a way to show empathy. It turns out the button has been in the works for a while, and Facebook plans to launch it in the near future. We'll be curious to see how it'll be deployed, but it sounds like we won't have to wait long to find out. And we pretty much know what it'll look like.

Ryan Bilodeau